Canada celebrates China's birthday amid bumps

While many Canadian politicians joined in celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, they acknowledged some of the diplomatic difficulties that the relationship has experienced since December.

That is when Canadian authorities arrested Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co, the daughter of the telecom giant's founder Ren Zhengfei, in Vancouver, at the request of the United States.

The Canadian politicians gathered last weekend in Toronto to commemorate the founding of the New China in 1949.